As Catholics across the world begin celebrating the Year of Faith, which runs from October 11, 2012 to November 24, 2013, the Bible Society of Slovenia has produced a resource to get people reading their Bibles. “Pope Benedict XVI described the Year of Faith as an opportunity for believers to ‘rediscover the joy of believing […]

“Now God is speaking directly to you, without any barriers. It’s a miracle!” At three events in Riga, along with several more in other cities across Latvia, people of all ages and backgrounds have had their first encounter with the new ecumenical translation of the Bible in modern Latvian. And with the first print run […]

More than 100 people gathered at the Jamaican High Commission in London on October 9 for the UK launch of the New Testament in Jamaican Patois. It was the result of a 20-year project. The High Commissioner, Her Excellency Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, welcomed the publication, saying it was “an important piece of work”. Never happened before The […]

In Togo over a third of the population is illiterate – a huge obstacle to the many Christians who would love to read the Bible. There also aren’t enough Bibles to go around, especially in many of the local languages. These are some of the many challenges facing the Bible Society of Togo as it […]

While the Musgum translators are waiting for the first proof copies of the Bible they have been working on, the area of northern Cameroon where they live is struggling to cope with a serious natural disaster. Hundreds of villages submerged Heavy rain during August and September led to unprecedented flooding in this part of the […]

The high walls of Ngaragba prison enclose more than 500 prisoners and their guards, who live in a state of anger, stress and fear. This is what the Bible Society of the Central African Republic and its church partners found on a recent visit to share God’s love in this place of despair. “Conditions in […]

The Bible took centre stage during the recent visit to Lebanon by Pope Benedict XVI. Not only did the pope point to Scripture as a source of unity, peace and hope for the Middle East’s minority Christian population, but hundreds of thousands of people received special editions of the New Testament from the Bible Society […]

Everything has been taken from Nyirankunda. She has lost her friends, family, home and identity. How can she ever smile again? Nyirankunda is from a village in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Like many thousands of others, she fled her war-torn country for a refugee camp in western Uganda, which is […]

The Women’s World Day of Prayer focus country in 2013 will be France. ZeBible, the alternative experience – Web 2.0 development; the two Bible exhibitions under the title The Bible, Heritage of Humanity; and The Bible in Prison: Releasing Hope and Understanding the Word. The three articles that follow relate to the French Bible Society’s […]

Around 10 years ago, the French Bible Society began working with Protestant and Catholic chaplains to ensure that prisoners’ requests for Bibles are met. “Prisoners are used to Bibles being available, so they ask for them,” says Vincent Leclair, the Catholic Chaplain General for prisons. “But there can be lots of different reasons behind their […]